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Friday, March 21, 2014

USC got its start with 53 students . . .

It
was in this rough-and-tumble town of Spaniards, Mexicans, Indians,
Europeans, Easterners, and Midwesterners— this pueblo of aspiration and
of experiment—that USC got its start with 53 students taught by 10
faculty. They gathered in a two-story building perched on a donated
parcel of land that the Los Angeles Daily Herald
unenthusiastically described as “covered with a rank growth of
mustard.” In those early days the school had no electricity, and
students tended wood-burning stoves to earn part of their tuition.
Transportation to the university was provided by horse-drawn rigs,
including a horse-drawn streetcar that operated on a line established
by USC’s principal founder, Robert Maclay Widney. Students had to
follow specific rules of conduct that forbade them from leaving town
without the permission of the university president, wearing firearms in
their classes, and shooting jackrabbits from the platform of the
streetcar.

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